Archive for Technology

There are few people for whom the most exciting part of a book publishing deal is the negotiation of the contract. For most folks in the industry, this is merely a part of the process that is an inconvenient necessity, a… Read the rest

I think this, in a word, is brilliant. Give your die-hard fans the ability to choose your music they like best, customize their selection into an album with customizable album art, then sell that album to their friends for a profit. And… Read the rest

Lee Hawkins of the Wall Street Journal had a discussion with Lady Gaga about whether she thinks her new album, Born This Way, is worth more than the $0.99 that Amazon charged consumers during a special promotion last Monday and… Read the rest

I had been working on a post concerning the offering of a new romance publishing imprint by Amazon, and the offering of a new digital resource for readers entitled Bookish, when we got beat to the punch. Mike Shatzkin of Read the rest

We’ve run a number of posts on the future of long form reading. In one of those, I speculated about the long term effects of exposing young children to enhanced ebooks, which provide a multi-media, multi-sensory experience that will… Read the rest

I just read a review of The Daily (the new iPad only subscription newspaper brainchild of Rupert Murdoch) from one of my favorite developers, Marco Arment. Marco developed one of the first iPhone apps I ever… Read the rest